Ted Hearn leaves ACA Connects as communications vice president, with his LinkedIn saying he’s publishing Policy Band … Globalstar names Xcom Labs founder Paul Jacobs, also ex-Qualcomm, CEO, effective immediately, in conjunction with Globalstar’s agreement to license key Xcom technologies (see 2308290003); Jacobs replaces former CEO David Kagan, retiring; Xcom Chief Technology Officer Matt Grob and Chief Scientist Peter Black also join Globalstar, also effective immediately, as will Vice President-Wireless Tamer Kadous and Vice President-Engineering Daaman Hejmadi, effective after they complete a transition period with Xcom ... Brightspeed promotes Chief Operating Officer Tom Maguire to CEO; current CEO Bob Mudge becomes executive chair; Manny Sampedro hired from Verizon to succeed Maguire as COO; all effective Nov. 1.
Charter Communications promotes Meg Hall to senior vice president-corporate software … Expel security operations provider names Yonni Shelmerdine, ex-SentinelOne, chief product officer.
DigitalOcean, cloud computing platform for startups and small businesses, says Yancey Spruill will depart as CEO and board member when a successor is found, and it names lead independent director Warren Adelman executive chairman, effective immediately ... Nebula streaming service names YouTuber Sam Denby chief content officer ... Advertising measurement firm MarketCast names Kantar’s Marisa McMahon head-client service, technology and platforms ... Qualys adds Tom Berquist, Cloud Software Group chief financial officer, to its board.
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission appoints Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry’s Jennifer Berrier as executive director, effective Sept. 11 … RiskOptics, cyber risk management company, names Chief Strategy Officer Rob Ellis acting CEO, replacing former CEO-Chief Product Officer Michael Maggio ... Cybersecurity company Cyemptive Technologies names retired Air Force Lt. Col. Jason Huff chief operating officer-security operations ... Global media agency Assembly names GroupM’s Greg Shickle its first chief activation officer, Europe ... Fiber internet company Lux Speed promotes Stephanie Pittman to director-project management.
Airvine, developer of wireless backhaul system for indoor connectivity, names Dave Robison, ex-Cisco, chief revenue officer ... CISO Global, managed cybersecurity and compliance company, names Gary Perkins, former chief information security officer for the province of British Columbia, as CISO ... SOptions Technology, cloud-enabled managed services company, names former Transaction Network Services executive Scott Feagans senior vice president-sales engineering ... Chipmaker onsemi adds inventor Christina Lampe-Onnerud, former co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Energy, to its board, effective Sept. 1 ... Cresta, generative AI company, names Gong’s Alex Cramer senior vice president-sales; he was Cresta vice president-sales in 2020 and 2021 ... mart eMobility taps Manoj Kohli, ex-SoftBank India, as chairman ... Telephone and Data Systems adds Executive Vice President-Chief Financial Officer Vicki Villacrez to its board.
FTC Chair Lina Khan names Henry Liu, ex-Covington & Burling, as director-Competition Bureau, succeeding Holly Vedova, retiring (see 2308220046) … Diana Moss, ex-American Antitrust Institute, joins Progressive Policy Institute as vice president and director-competition policy …American Arbitration Association names vLex’s Steve Errick, also ex-LexisNexis, senior vice president-chief development officer; Errick also will fill those roles for AAA’s international division, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, focusing on projects on impact of changing technology and AI on alternative dispute resolution.
Charter Communications Senior Executive Vice President David Ellen moves to an advisory role to President-CEO Chris Winfrey beginning Dec. 1 ... The Cybersecurity Studio adds Edna Conway, retired former Microsoft vice president-chief security and risk officer, cloud infrastructure, as an adviser ... Cable One elects Crown Castle Chair Robert Bartolo, ex-T. Rowe Price, to board, increasing it to nine members …
White House Office of Science and Technology promotes Austin Bonner to deputy U.S. chief technology officer-policy … Fetch, rewards app and consumer engagement platform, names Gideon Oppenheimer, ex- Uber Freight, chief financial officer ... HubSpot, customer relationship management platform, adds Autodesk President-CEO Andrew Anagnost to its board, effective Sept. 5, filling seat to be vacated by former Google executive Avanish Sahai ... AeroVironment, robotics and connectivity company, nominates Mary Beth Long, former assistant defense secretary under President Barack Obama, for election to its board at Sept. 29 annual meeting, filling seat being vacated by Vista Venture Managing Partner Catharine Marigold.
Vectra AI names Scott Dussault, ex-Workhuman, chief financial officer … Synopsys promotes President-Chief Operating Officer Sassine Ghazi to president-CEO, effective Jan. 1, when current Chair-CEO Aart de Geus moves to executive chair; Synopsys also added Ghazi to its board, effective Aug. 13 ... Spire Global, provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, names Equifax’s Leo Basola chief financial officer, replacing Thomas Krywe ... Xsolla, video game e-commerce company, names Salesforce’s Steve Lambert chief operating officer.
Richard Cameron, ex-Broadband Law Group, joins Womble Bond’s communications, technology and media team as partner … Ernesto Falcon says he has left his job as Electronic Frontier Foundation senior legislative counsel; the Democrat is running for a California state Senate seat for San Francisco's eastern Bay Area (see 2305090063) … Interactive Advertising Bureau adds former Mindshare CEO Amanda Richman as executive in residence and KPMG’s Piya Mehra, also ex-Horizon Media, as chief of staff.